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18.4.18

Letter posted to 45 left leaningl Labor MPs and Senators re open letter to Bill Shorten 18 April 2018

18th April 2018

Dear

Please find attached a copy of the open letterwhich I sent to Bill Shorten earlier this
week, together with a copy of the covering letter, also addressed to Bill
Shorten.

Rural Australians for Refugee groups around Australia have long
recognised that the present government has no intention of relaxing its
increasingly hardline and coercive stance on refugees and asylum seekers. We
therefore have to look to those in the Labor party who might offer a glimmer of
hope for the many thousands of asylum seekers and refugees who are currently
living in fear and uncertainty in our communities or who remain indefinitely
stranded and almost forgotten on Nauru and Manus.

The present policy is utterly cruel, inhumane, of doubtful legality and
enormously expensive. Your support in working forsignificant changes to Labor's current policy
would be widely welcomed. It is time to be courageous, to confront the
political risks, and to make a principled and humane stand on behalf of our
asylum seekers and refugees. We have surely punished them enough!